Federal authorities grabbed two people in Joliet on Thursday, although it’s not clear why, according to local immigrant advocacy groups.

Officers responded to the 500 block of Bellarmine Drive East at 9 p.m. Wednesday for a report of shots fired in a parking lot, Joliet police said,

A Venezuelan national will remain in the Will County jail in a case where he’s charged with selling fake grenades during an undercover operation. 

Attorneys for Will County Board Member Jacqueline Traynere plan to mount a “vigorous defense” and expect a “favorable outcome” in her misdemeanor computer tampering case.

A Harvey man who was 16 when he shot a young New Lenox man in the back while he was running away from him will serve 45 years in prison for his murder. 

A Romeoville man was charged with unlawful restraint of woman with a machete Saturday evening in Wauconda, police report.

A former psychiatric patient from Crest Hill is charged threatening to burn a mental health facility to the ground with a technician inside after he was upset about the investigation of his claim against her.

A man is facing multiple felony charges after he was accused of selling fake grenades during an undercover operation in Will County.

A woman testified in court on Thursday she went to the police about the fatal shooting of a Joliet teen after she was told to get rid of the vehicle linked to the incident by a man charged with the teen’s death.